Corrected entry: At the carnival, you can see an African-American man staring at the camera for a while. I am unsure if he is a crew-member watching over the scene, or if he is just an extra trying to get onscreen.
Darkman (1990)
1 correction since 27 Dec '24, 09:40
Directed by: Sam Raimi
Starring: Liam Neeson, Frances McDormand, Larry Drake, Colin Friels
Continuity mistake: When Durant shows up at Darkman's hideout in a helicopter, he is holding a machine gun. In the next shot, he's holding a grenade launcher. (01:10:20)
Trivia: Cinematic legend and Sam Raimi regular Bruce Campbell plays Darkman in the final shot.
Question: When Peyton wakes up in the hospital, images suddenly appear. What exactly is the significance of the light bulb shattering and the little marionette with the huge head supposed to represent?
Answer: It's just psychedelic imagery to try and show his fragile state of mind and how he's losing it. The shattering light-bulb is likely to show that his mind is "shattering" (as light-bulbs appearing above someone's head are often used to signify brains/ideas in fictional, particularly cartoons), and the marionette "dancing" is the first part of the recurring motif in which he sees himself as a "freak." (Which is paid off later when he starts singing a demented song about "Paying five bucks to see the dancing freak!").
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Correction: I submitted this entry over twenty years ago, and now I'm going to correct it. This entry was based on an old DVD version of the movie with a mediocre transfer. I recently bought the 4K version of the film, and seeing it in a significantly higher resolution, it seems as though the man is just sort of staring off into space and not looking at the camera at all.
TedStixon